Building muscle on powerpc

2006-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I prepared a new version of the muscle package, which was sponsored at at the beginning of august and fixed a ftbfs bug on ppc. However, the buildd did not attempt to build the package. Can an admin re-enable the autobuilding of muscle? (try injecting steroids in the motherboard ;) htt

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:16:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [...] > > This option should also work for any Debian-based distribution with > > X.Org 7.0. > > So, folk running sarge will not be able to make this experiment, right ? IIRC I had problems with X.Org releases prior to 7.0, but I do no

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
Thanks for this more detailed information. On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:48:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > 3. How to install it? >== > > Sid users can install it directly. As it has not been tested at all, > your X server may hang up or your keyboard may be fully broken, so

Re: can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

2006-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:54:36PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > "If Ctrl-Alt-Function keys stop working, try removing the keyboard > variant option from xorg.conf if it's there. (option "XkbVariant") > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and leave the keyboard variant field > empty. > > If this

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:03:33AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [...] > Mmm, altough i have only a US keyboard powerbook, i would willingly test this, > as this is a major problematic point for mac keyboards. > > I have two questions though : > > 1) how do you detect you have a pmac keyboard, and

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:24:02 +0200 Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just uploaded xkb-data_0.8-8exp1_all.deb into experimental to > try to fix this mess. Unfortunately I also have no Mac keyboard, > so I could not test it at all and need your help to find and fix > bugs. When ev

[Correction] Re: can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

2006-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:54:36PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > The help message for "fnset -u" doesn't seem to explain too much for > those who do not already what it's all about, so as I'm not willing to should say: "those who do not already know what it's all about [ ... ]" > leave t

Re: can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

2006-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 04:29:51PM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello! > > I am running an old G4/400 with a usb keyboard for testing reason > with the current kernel (2.6.17.11 from kernel.org). I do not know > when it happend but I am not able to switch to a virtual terminal > anymore

Re: can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

2006-08-29 Thread Tommy Trussell
On 8/29/06, Christoph Ewering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running an old G4/400 with a usb keyboard for testing reason with the current kernel (2.6.17.11 from kernel.org). I do not know when it happend but I am not able to switch to a virtual terminal anymore. If I remember right , I could sw

Re: can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

2006-08-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 16:29 +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > P.S. I found some articles in the list with a related problem - this > was solved by creating /dev/adb and to check with "fnset -u" , well > here it is: manually creating /dev/adb won't help if you don't have driver support. You sh

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2006-08-29 Thread jw
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can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

2006-08-29 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello! I am running an old G4/400 with a usb keyboard for testing reason with the current kernel (2.6.17.11 from kernel.org). I do not know when it happend but I am not able to switch to a virtual terminal anymore. If I remember right , I could switch with (CTRL+Option+F1) to vt1 with ker

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 01:24 +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > In this version, Macintosh layouts are modified like PC ones, > 3rd and 4th levels are kept in the 1st group instead of belonging > to a 2nd group. You may need additional options (see for instance > /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst) to

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Denis On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:24:02AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi folks, > > PC keyboards have been redesigned in Xfree86 4.3 to allow loading > several layouts (for instance us+ru+fr); in xkeyboard-config, all > previous PC layouts have been dropped and replaced by these new > layouts

Re: iBook and batteries

2006-08-29 Thread Matthias Kirschner
* Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-27 15:44:48 +]: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:40:06 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > > I can increase the capacity considerably, if I discharge my battery until > > the moment before it dies. > > I tried it (thanks to Michael too for pointing that out)

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:24:02AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi folks, > > PC keyboards have been redesigned in Xfree86 4.3 to allow loading > several layouts (for instance us+ru+fr); in xkeyboard-config, all > previous PC layouts have been dropped and replaced by these new > layouts. > But Ma